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Look out below! Panel falls from B-52 bomber during flyover saluting medical professionals
No injuries were reported.
By Jon Simkins
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Decades late, the B-52 is getting a new nuclear weapon
To keep the B-52 bomber relevant for its nuclear mission, the U.S. Air Force is preparing to spend billions of dollars to develop a new air-launched cruise missile.
By Aaron Mehta and Jeff Martin
50 years ago, a B-52 crashed in Greenland ... with 4 nuclear bombs on board
Fifty years ago, on Jan. 21, 1968, the Cold War grew significantly colder. It was on this day that an American B-52G Stratofortress bomber, carrying four nuclear bombs, crashed onto the sea ice of Wolstenholme Fjord in the northwest corner of Greenland, one of the coldest places on Earth. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Danes were not pleased.
By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University via AP/The Conversation
Air Force solidifies options for B-52 engine replacement
The service could acquire enough replacement engines for all 76 B-52s as early as FY2034.
By Valerie Insinna